Hello Kirk, Please try: fuser /usr/spool/mail/kirk or whatever your mailbox file is. On my system: fuser /usr/spool/mail/seba /usr/spool/mail/seba: 2380 This will tell you which process keeps your mailbox locked. Then try: ps ax |grep 2380 (in my case it tells me that pine is the one to blame) or: kill 2380 Or even more: kill -9 2380 This should sort out the problem. Yours' Sebastian On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 cpt.kirk at 1tree.net wrote: > Pine isn't running in the background. I have necountered that one. The > problem exists even after killin all user process except a ncftp session > running in the background. > > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
